museums

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• 9/15/19
  

  S.F. History Museum Highlights America’s First Immigration Restriction: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

  by James Thornton Harris

  An interview with Tamiko Wong, the executive director of the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum about the exhibit Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/9/19
  

  What Happens to Those Heartbreaking Tributes at the 9/11 Memorial

  The expressions of mourning left behind at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum are cleared nightly and preserved.

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• SOURCE: The Japan Times
  9/9/19
  

  At meeting in Kyoto, global body debates how to define and protect museums

  At the heart of the debate is determining the role museums should play in the 21st century, and the extent to which they should engage the public.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/29/19
  

  New Exhibit Highlights the Understudied History of Enslaved Women in Colonial Cape Town

  At the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, an exhibition gives voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/31/19
  

  What happened when Trump visited the African American History Museum, according to its founding director

  “It was not my job to make the rough edges of history smooth, even for the president,” Lonnie Bunch writes. 

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/28/19
  

  A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room

  The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/26/19
  

  Hungary’s Orban hopes a rabbi can save his country’s controversial new Holocaust museum

  Initially, a Hungarian official spoke of a museum that would highlight the "story of love between Hungarian Jews and non-Jews. A love that has survived everything. As a result of which there is still a large Hungarian Jewish community living in this country." The premise was decried as Holocaust revisionism by historians and museum professionals worldwide.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/19/19
  

  A New Definition of “Museum” Sparks International Debate

  The International Council of Museums will vote on a new definition of museums in September. The proposed change includes language about “social justice, global equality and planetary wellbeing.” Critics say the text is too political for most museums to employ.  

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/15/19
  

  Three Washington exhibitions explore the complex history of the women's suffrage movement

  As the 19th Amendment turns 100, three exhibitions in Washington explore the contentious — and unfinished — struggle for voting rights.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  What and Whom Are Jewish Museums For?

  What is the role of a Jewish museum? Is it for the Jewish community, or those non-Jews around it? And must its leader be Jewish?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/15/19
  

  Angered by This Roosevelt Statue? A Museum Wants Visitors to Weigh In

  Conversation about monuments has reached a fever pitch, and the city was split on this one. The American Museum of Natural History is opening an exhibition on it.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/14/2019
  

  Founder Of African American History Museum Discovered Dead

  Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was discovered on Friday afternoon in the trunk of a car about 3 miles from her home.

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• 6/25/19
  

  10 Things To Check Out At the Library of Congress’s New Exhibit on Women’s Suffrage

  by Andrew Fletcher

  Highlights from the exhibit on women's suffrage at the Library of Congress. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/13/19
  

  Clarence Thomas says a Smithsonian exhibit about him is wrong. (It’s not.)

  This is the second time the museum has come under fire for its treatment of the second African American member of the Supreme Court. 

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• SOURCE: The Post and Courier
  6/9/2019
  

  Historians at South Carolina museum expand its telling of area’s African American history

  The museum contracted with historian Dr. Edwin Breeden to research on the area’s African American residents.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/19
  

  Smithsonian names Lonnie Bunch III as new secretary, the first African American in the top spot

  Lonnie G. Bunch III, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, will become the next secretary of the Smithsonian.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/14/19
  

  The new Statue of Liberty Museum is a quiet paean to America’s embrace of immigrants—but what is there to celebrate?

  The elegant little Statue of Liberty Museum opens to the public later this week and provides, at last, a consolation prize for the tourists who land on Liberty Island each year.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/6/19
  

  A Reimagined Spy Museum in Washington Doesn’t Flinch From the Darker Side

  Built for $162 million, the museum features flashy interactive exhibits but also grapples with intelligence failures, out-of-control surveillance and torture.

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  5/7/19
  

  Lawmakers Renew Efforts To Open ‘The National Museum Of The American Latino’

  A bipartisan group of lawmakers reintroduced a bill to establish the National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, DC.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/29/19
  

  Should These Clothes Be Saved?

  Thousands of articles of everyday women’s clothing are being preserved in lockers in a college basement. But where, exactly, does their value lie?